The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 55
For expiation follows guilt, as surely as Orion treads on the heels of Rohini[18].
Who acts: Orion · What happens: follow, tread · To what, where: guilt, heels
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Orion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 expiation | case |
| 2 | expiation | expiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obl |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 treads | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 surely | advmod |
| 7 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 10 treads | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 treads | mark |
| 9 | Orion | Orion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 treads | nsubj |
| 10 | treads | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follows | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 heels | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heels | det |
| 13 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 treads | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Rohini | case |
| 15 | Rohini | Rohini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heels | nmod |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 18 | punct |
| 17 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Rohini | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 18 | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | guilt | for expiation | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme for expiation=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tread | present | Orion | the heels of Rohini | surely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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